Modern Commentary
If you haven't read Unlike Minerva, this is a callback to how Kimberly treated Brisbane throughout most of the series. Except you were never sure whether or not she was sincere about Brisbane, where she's decidedly not sincere about any of this.
The summary for this was "Brisbane later has him put on an ascot. After a while, they pick up on the similarities between how Kimberly treats him and how she used to treat Brisbane."
I'd imagine that in the initial pitch, that would've been a weeklong thing. I think that we got as much mileage out of the concept in one Sunday comic as we could justify, though. - Terrence